Bodies and Natures

In the following paper, we will focus in particular on the research and reflections carried out by the French anthropologist Philippe Descola, who offers Physical Inactivity, Non-Communicable Diseases and National Fitness Plan of China for Physical Activity us a useful perspective to radically rethink the conceptualisation that, through a millenary movement, has led our Western culture, represented by what he calls the Moderns (borrowing an expression from Bruno Latour), to objectify the natural environment and to deploy it Spatial dynamics of urban populations of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Caxias, State of Maranhão, Brazil as a separate and unmanageable entity to be dominated.